Show Edif td 2 r r T L Ly lu lur How many times have women walked down the halls been given a complete twice over and known right down to the very depths of their souls that the poor guy standing there is just dying to meet them How many times have we just kept walking right down that hall because the guy didn't have the guts to stop and say hello How many women have groaned inside because they wanted to meet the guy and haven't known what to do about it What's one more friendship lost because it was never gained right Everywhere th there re is all this talk about the New Sexual Sexual Sexual Sex Sex- ual Freedom about women's women's wo wo- women's mens men's rights about the equality of the sexes About women and men being able to todo do their own thing Right So why is it when we try to meet these guys by byway way of introducing ourselves first they think we are trying t to proposition them Nice girls dont don't do that sort of thing At least some men still have it in their heads that way which is ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous lous How many people are lonely lonely lonely lone lone- ly and alone because the men of our society haven't accepted accepted accepted ted the fact that they will never meet anyone if they cant can't make the first move or accept it I emphasize accept accept accept ac it because by the time timea he a guy reaches college ought to be aware of the world enough to accept an equality of the sexes to the extent of f letting a woman say hello If hes he's the type that thinks the man ought to be bethe bethe bethe the one to say hello first the e hell somebody tell him to todo todo todo do it T. T L L. L Bird J To Points West Editorial Comment Page Fred Wilbur And The Ignorant Ignorant Ignorant Ig Ig- Ig- Ig and Apathy Promo tion Committee Re The comments and ang opinions opinions opinions ions expressed by both of you in the January 17 1978 issue of Points West Mrs Mrss and Mss who whoever whoever ever everyou you are I agree gree with both of you in and disagree in some points others Yes Fred you did succeed suc- suc succeed succeed suc suc- in activating some of I the Apathetic but is all that profanity necessary to get a point over And you of the Apathetic look at your let- let not somewhat ter are you guilty of the same thing Both of you did get your point across but did you not overlook overlook overlook over over- look the main issue Im I'm one of those old liberal liberal liberal lib lib- eral fogies 40 and as I look around me quite frankly frank frank- frankly ly Im I'm scared I and millions mil mil- millions millions mil mil- lions of other older than I were instrumental in building building building build build- ing the world and nation for better or worse You are the ones that will inherit what we and generations before us will leave What will you do with it Will you destroy it change it accept it for what it is Either way it'll be your ball game soon and the only point Im I'm trying to make is Wake up know the ground rules get involved before its it's too late Remember ONLY 6 YEARS TILL 1984 And a parting shot I quote Open Letter to a teen ager Always we hear the plaintive plaintive plaintive plain plain- tive cry of the teenagers What can we do Where can we go The r is go go home Hang the storm windows paint the woodwork Rake the leaves Mow the lawn Shovel the walk Wash the car Learn to cook Scrub some floors Repair the sink Build a boat Get a job J Help the minister priest or the theSal Sal Salvation rabbi the Ute Red Cross Army Visit the Ute sick Assist the Ute poor Study your lessons And then when you are through and not too tired read a book Your parents do not owe village village village vil vil- you entertainment Your lage does not owe you recreation recreation recreation facilities The world does not owe you a living You owe the world some some- thing You owe it jt your time and energy and your talents so that one no-one will be at war or in pov poverty or sick or lonely again In plain simple words grow up quit being a crybaby crybaby crybaby cry cry- baby get out of your dreamworld dreamworld dream dreamworld world develop a backbone not a wishbone and start acting like a man or a lady Im I'm a parent Im I'm tired of nursing pr protecting helping appealing begging excusing excusing excusing ing tolerating denying myself myself myself my my- self needed comforts for every whim and fancy just because your selfish ego instead instead instead in in- stead of common sense dominates dominates dominates dom dom- your personality and thinking and requests Thanks for reading KEEP ACTIVE BE AWARE Paul J. J Dahlberg PS Fred it doesn't make sense to me to read a militant militant militant mili mili- tant comment then see it signed with the nuclear disarmament disarmament disarmament dis dis- dis- dis armament sign for peace Why not Cant Can't a person b be mIlitant about apathy and still believe in peace editor Dear Points West I bring myself once more from the pits of utter frustration frustration frustration tion only to face a wall of ignorant ig- ig ignorant ignorant ig ig- and apathetic fools As AsI AsI I sit in the cluttered kingdom of junk food junkies more commonly known as the cafeteria cafeteria caf caf- eteria teria I get this urge to take up pen and a attempt to enlighten the way Unlike the ignorant and apathetic sheep who seem just to walk around unthinking undemanding tobe to tobe tobe and stagnating They seem be baa baa baaing all the way to getting going gone gone- nowhere But then comes Mr Wrights Wright's letter and as I read it I wonder what seems to be Mr Wrights Wright's problem It appears to me he has things all backwards Foris For Foris Foris is it not your type of attitude which is more harmful than thang g good After all was it not your type that brought us the atomic bomb the Vietnam war inequality and Richard Nixon Wherefore the so- so called brought you America the Beautiful via the American Revolution Tell me are the rebels truly malignant who speak out for their rights or are the straights who quiver like a bowl full of jelly RB Commercial Art PS I dont don't think of myself as asa asa asa a rebel or straight As a matter of fact as I look in the round mirror I appear rather 7 |